The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-24


though il pretty well down below her shout
der-hlades and could have been concealed easily
A lady behind one of the booths seemed to have
made mistake and put on the trangular-cui
bodice wrong side The mistake was partial
IL concealed BIZ q bit of lace and some powder.
Every body walked arouri the room and chat
tered, and when each one had bought flower
and put 1t IN her dress there nothing more
to be done at the booths. and the ladies behind
them joined in the general clack of tongues.
Mrs Paran Stevens came in. walked through
the crowd at one side of the ROOM and took
refuge behind caka-stand in the corner. She
remained there. talking with people and looking
at the crowd from, under her heavy eyelids. Tive
very distin gushed leaders OF society entered and
were greeted by the managers of the fere They
we're on the list of patronesses A table was
brought ont and in the middle of the hall for
the two patronesses. and coffee was served &c
them there. The table was in every body's wav
and so were the patronesses, but the middle OF
the nail was the best place to sit and be SEEN
When the people tired of the gay reveiry oil
walking about. they stood still. and when they
tired of standing still they moved about and
coilided with each other. They didn't tire OF
talking. and SO they didn't stop that at all There
nothing else 10 do except listen to the music.
aud nobody dii that One Of the fourteen men
had gray hair very red face, and single eye
glass. He wandered about alone in solemn
silence, and had joyous time 1t was society
affair. and he was discharging his duty by show
ing himself. The other thirteen were very sub.
dued, and kept in the corners. Some of them
most of them seemed either frightened or fright
fully bored 1t was intended to have some darc.
ing, but when every body was there the floor
too crowded, and when the foor was available
the men had escaped. The fete lasted three
hours, and was great social success.
s'rhe great Deuteronomy is commenced
said Mrs. Jimmarson ishe was referring to the
summer exodus from New York;. land We are
all interested in pacihes for sickness a
pacific for the Atlantic is something much
needed il this DAY and generation. Every one
going to sea has theory, and usually
panacea, for the woes Of NAL de mer. but along
about Barnegat lighthouse they throw up all
idea of cure and just submit to fate Under nc
circumstances, perhaps. do so much Of
the resources, the character, and the inner
ture of friends as at sea They get past dis
stimulation. The petty hypocrisies of life seem
to get beyond their reach. A man may live
twenty years land with his wife, and get
really introduced to her the second DAY at
4 woman may view the head of her husband OPP
posire her seat at table, and on the adjoining
pillow for ''yeahs and yeans.' as Mrs Florence
says. but she confronts the real Ichabod for the
first time when he turns his despairing gaze to.
ward her from over the rail of ocean steamer
On an outgoing vessel there was floating hos
pital of these sufferers, and day after day the
ships company sat down with about six Of the
260 cabin passengers to dinner There we're a
party of tourists board. under the temp oral
and spiritual guidance of old Baptist min
ister from some Western State He hsd
a dozen young and pretty girls to take
of. and well-known article of wife
assistant. Poor old Ma had been fixed UP for
foreign ports, and after going toothless for years
brand new upper and under set of store teeth
had been put in Pa had given his mind to the
art of vanquishing sickness. He got his
party up deck, he ratified the stewards for
mattresses. and by the time got TO Sandy
Hook he had them all IN reclining positions.
Lemons. champagne. parched corn. choral and
clam juice had been variously recommended.
He made the rounds with lemon and gave
everyone Of the girls squeeze. He followed IL
up with small bottle and teaspoon. He
.rarnped up his row of girls with paper bag OF
pop corn, and he tramped down the lire with
clam juice As some one had advised them to
keep their eyes stationary object, most OF
them read their last letters from homo.
This sickness is more matter OF the
mind than anything else," said ne.
..Mens agtat molen," said in reply.
Very true--the great Latin poets were gen.
orally correct" assented Pa
just then Ma who had been sitting on a camp
stool telling me of going to New York on board
a Perry Anger in 40 made CHASTITY face at me
and described helpless circle in the air with
| lump arm. She toted TO the ships side
| the first contributor. There a click, CLINT
| the sunlight. gurgie ana the upper ana
under set of teeth were in the bosom of the
ocean buried She made the rest of the passage
behind a handkerchief and whisted her lamen-
| tations for S75 '.jest thrown away
A fashionable couple had the next state room.
| The husband was the only man outside the ships
| crew who was not seaslck and he took villain
| Gus advantage of the woman.
| Il know | can't live, Hennery,' she said. one
| day.
| II can't say as see how you cam returned
the truthful spouse; don't die with any secrets
| between us, nor anything on your mind"
/ didn't think there was anything left for that
| woman to give away, but directly heard her
| family confessing that she expected to meet
] some old beau. of whom the husband sus-
| picious in London. An aemonitory kick on Tn g
| partition was no earthly sort of good. She'd got
| to telling, and there seemed to be end OF 1t.
| But silence after awhile announced she had got
| to the terminus of the confessional Then the
harsh brute of a husband had his innings.
| '.You poor silly IDIOT" he sad after telling
me that, you'd better catch something and die
| as quick as possible No one ever did die of sea-
sickness | wish to the Lord they did. You
| can stay right in this state-room, and go back
| on the s.p, for never will take you on it"
Wow! wow!" walled Maria what will be-
| come of me2'
And often wonder what does become of the
women after seasick passage. Certainly it
seems they are of no earthly attraction to their
lawful owners, after the disclosures of those
iconocastie days at
Miss Fluta Magilder came on board with n
huge Saratoga trunk, aud had it toted into tho
sta.e-room which she was going to share with a
woman who had travelled.
s'Why, what can you be thinking of" groaned
her agerievsG shipmate, who could hardly get in
or out of bed with the big trunk filing the room.
81 am going to make toilets and wear decent
Clothes" replied Fluta.
She sat down to big dinner while yet the
bay of New York lay TRANQUILITY about her She
tarried over the nuts and wine till the merry
little breaker, outside quarantine thrilled tha
ship to the center. Fiuta then grew gray round
the eills She was escorted to the state-room.
Under the bows of the big trunk she did up on
side Of her front hair a crinping pin. The
opposite lock was in her nerveless fingers when
she fell off the stool and into her bunk. She
never moved again till the steamer struck the
Mersey Then she was carried off the ship on
litter. with one side of her hair crimped like a
darkys wool. the other straiehter than looms
hind leg. CLARA BELLE.
Tho Basic Steel Patents.
PITTsBURG, April % I'm the long pc ndiuf
suit between the Bessmer Steel Company VS.
Jacob Reese. of this city. over the rights OF pos
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